Nikolai Golitsyn

Nikolai Golitsyn (12 April 1850 – 2 July 1925) was a Russian noble and statesman of the late Russian Empire, serving as its last Prime Minister. He was appointed in late 1916 and resigned in 1917, at the outbreak of the February Revolution.

Biography
He was born near Moscow to the House of Golitsyn, a prominent Russian noble family. Golitsyn graduated from a the Imperial Alexander Lyceum and entered the Ministry of Interior, where he rose through the ranks. He was appointed to various administrative posts throughout the Russian Empire. In 1903, Golitsyn became a senator. Golitsyn came to hold senior posts in the Interior Ministry in the early 1900s. Despite his protests to Tsar Nicholas II that he was not capable of being prime minister, Golitsyn was nonetheless appointed as the replacement of Alexander Trepov in December 1916. During the February Revolution, the government was unable to suppress the riots as the Petrograd garrison joined them. The Council of Ministers held its last session on March 12, at the Marinsky Palace, handing its resignation to the Tsar. The Provisional Committee of the State Duma ordered all ministers and senior officials to be interrogated, and Golitsyn was transferred to St. Peter and Paul Fortress. He was later executed in 1924 by the Soviet regime for alleged counter-revolutionary activity.